Halloween history

Ooooowwwwwwwww, creepy ... .... Halloween a day where all the people using ghost costumes. Perhaps for those of you who fear this ghost can be a scary day. But do you know how the story about this Halloween? yesterday I was getting an article about this Halloween. Please read ... ....

Halloween originated from the festival of Samhain (from the ancient Irish language samain) celebrated the ancient Celtic. Festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture, and is sometimes called the "Celtic New Year". Celtic people who embraced paganism hereditary use the opportunity festival for slaughter cattle and stockpile food in preparation for winter.

Nation ancient Gael believes that the date of 31 October, barring the dead and the living world into the open. The dead do harm to people living with the disease and damage crops. While celebrating the festival, people Gael lit bonfires to burn the bones of animals that they slaughtered. Gael people wearing costumes and masks to impersonate the evil spirits or trying to make peace with them.

Halloween is short for All Hallows' Even (eve and events are equally meaningful evening / night), which means the evening before the feast of All Hallows is now called Day Halloween symbol that is universally understood that carved pumpkin shaped the face of "creepy" called Jack-o'-lantern. In the Jack-o'-lantern is usually placed a burning candle or a lamp to make it look more sinister in the dark. Yes I have to go through here first story, sequel to my post again for the next few days.

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History of labor day

Every May 1, the workers from around the world commemorate the great event demonstration of the workers in the United States in 1886, which demanded the implementation of eight hours of work. May 1, this is what is known as May Day!
This demand associated with the current environment, when the workers were forced to work for 12 to 16 hours per day. Large demonstrations that took place since April 1886 was initially supported by around 250 thousand workers.
Within two weeks enlarged to around 350 thousand workers. City of Chicago is the heart of the movement followed by about 90 thousand workers. In New York, the same demonstration was followed by about 10 thousand workers, in Detroit followed by 11 thousand workers.
Demonstrations also spread to various cities such as Louisville and Baltimore demonstration unite white and black workers. Until May 1, 1886, demonstrations spread from Maine to Texas, and from New Jersey to Alabama, followed by half a million workers in the country.
These developments also provoked a great reaction from the business people and local government officials at that time. Through Chicago's Commercial Club, spent approximately U.S. $ 2,000 to purchase equipment in order to deal with machine gun demonstrations. Peaceful demonstration demanding the reduction of working hours is over with the victims and the unrest. About 180 police confronting demonstrations and ordered that the demonstrators disperse.
A bomb exploded near the cordon. The police were indiscriminate firing workers who were demonstrating. As a result the victim fell from the unions on May 3, 1886, four workers were killed and dozens others injured.
With allegations of involvement in the bombing of eight labor activists were arrested and imprisoned. As a result of this action, the police apply the prohibition against any worker demonstrations.
But the workers do not simply give up and in 1888 returned to action with the same demands. In addition, also decided to re-do the demonstration on May 1, 1890.
The series of demonstrations that occurred at the time, not only in the United States. In fact, according to Rosa Luxemburg (1894), a demonstration demanding the reduction of working hours to 8 hours per day are in fact diinsipirasikan by similar demonstrations that occurred previously in Australia in 1856.
Demands the reduction of working hours is also a stopover in Europe. At that time, the labor movement in central Europe rose. Of course, this phenomenon is increasingly thicken the unity within the labor movement as the world in a struggle.
Monumental events that became the pinnacle of world unity of the labor movement is the operation of the International Labor Congress in 1889. The Congress was attended by hundreds of delegates from various countries and decided eight hours of work per day to the main demands of the workers throughout the world.
In addition, Congress also welcomed the proposal of the delegation of workers from the United States which calls for general strike May 1, 1890 to demand the reduction of working hours by making the May 1 as Labor Day World

Eight hours / day or 40 hours / week (five working days) have been determined to be of international labor standards by the ILO through the ILO Convention no. 01 in 1919 and the Convention no. 47, 1935. Especially for the convention no. 47, 1935, until now, only 14 countries that signed the convention.

Enactment of the convention is an international recognition which indirectly represents the fruit of the struggle of the workers all the world to get a decent job.

Determination of 8 hours of work per day as one of the main provisions in labor industrial relations is a marker of the end of the forms of forced labor and slavery are hiding behind industrial relations.

The problem this time, more and more workers are forced to work more than 8 hours per day. This is caused by a worsening crisis of imperialism that suppress wages and increase the cost of basic necessities for life.

In Indonesia, the celebration of May Day as a holiday has been officially abolished through the issuance of Law Number 13 of 2003. Indirectly, the victory of May 1 workers' movement suffered a sharp decline. Increasingly disappearing.

Origin of Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day celebrations including a feast of pagan Romans (pagans), in which idolatry is the religion of them since more than 17 centuries ago. Valentine celebration is an expression of the pagan religion of the Roman god of love and respect them.

    Valentine's Day celebration has historical roots in the form of a few stories passed down through generations of the Romans and the Christians their heirs. The most famous story about its origin is that the Romans used to believe that Romulus (founder of Rome) fed by a she-wolf, the wolf gave her physical strength and intelligence of the mind. The Romans commemorate this event in mid-February each year with a magnificent memorial. Among the rituals is to slaughter a goat and dog, then dilumurkan blood to the two young men a strong physique. Then they washed the blood with milk. After that began the big parade with both the young man in front of the entourage. Both carry two pieces of leather that they use to stain everything they come across. The Roman woman to spread deliberately overlooking it cheerfully, because they believe it will be blessed with fertility and childbirth with ease.

History of Valentine's Day I:

    According to chronicle the ancient Athenian calendar, the period between mid-January to mid February is the month Gamelion, which is dedicated to the sacred marriage god Zeus and Hera. You know the god Zeus? the father-nye hercules.

    In ancient Rome, February 15 is the feast of Lupercalia, a celebration of Lupercus, the god of fertility, symbolized half-naked and dressed in goat skins. As a ritual of purification, the priests of Lupercus meyembahkan goat sacrifice to the gods and then after drinking wine, they would run around the streets of Rome holding pieces of sheep skin and touch whoever they come across the street. Some historians say this as one reason for the embryo of Valentine's Day.


History of Valentine's Day II:

    According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the name of Valentine was believed to be referring to the three martyr or saint (saint), which differed, the following:

        * Priest in Rome
        * Bishop Interamna (modern Terni)
        * Martyr in the Roman province of Africa.

    The relationship between the three martyrs was the feast of love (Valentine) is unclear. Even Pope Gelasius I in 496, stating that in fact nothing is known about these martyrs, but on February 14 designated as a memorial feast of St. Valentine. Some say that Pope Gelasius I deliberately set it to surpass the feast of Lupercalia which was celebrated on February 15.

    Skeletal remains unearthed from the tomb of Saint Hyppolytus, identified as a corpse St. Valentinus. Then placed in a coffin of gold and sent to the church Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland. The body has been given to them by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836. Many tourists who make pilgrimages to this church on Valentine's Day (14 February), where crates of gold being paraded in a procession and brought to a high altar. On that day carried a special Mass was held and presented to the young people and those who are in a relationship of love.

    Feast day was removed from the Church calendar in 1969 as part of a broader effort to remove saints that its origin is unclear, dubious and just based on the legend alone. The feast day is still celebrated in some parishes.

History of Valentine's Day III:

    Note the first association of the feast of Saint Valentine with romantic love is in the 14th century in England and France, where it is believed that February 14 is the day when birds are looking for a partner for mating. This belief is written on the work of writer named Geoffrey Chaucer's Middle English. He wrote the story Parlement of Foules (Conversation Birds) that:

        For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day (That this was sent on the day of Saint Valentine) Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate (When all the birds come there to choose their partners)


    In the time it was common for lovers to exchange notes on Valentine's Day and Valentine call their partner. A Valentine card from the 14th century is said to be part of a collection of writings by the British Library in London. Chances are many legends about St. Valentine were created in this era. Some of them told me that:

        * In the evening before St. Valentine was going to die as a martyr (died a martyr), he has written a small declaration of love he gave to the prison warden is written "From Valentinusmu".
        * When the Roman soldiers were forbidden to marry by the Emperor Claudius II, St. Valentine secretly helped marry them secretly.

    In most versions of these legends, February 14, associated with miscarriage as a martyr.

History of Valentines Day IV:

    Story St. Valentine

    Valentine was a priest who lived in Rome in the century III. He lived in the kingdom which was led by Emperor Claudius notoriety. He hated the emperor. Claudius ambition is to have a large military force, he wants all the men in his kingdom to join in dalamya.

    But unfortunately, this desire is not supported. The men are reluctant to engage in warfare. Because they do not want to leave family and her lover. This made Claudius furious, he immediately ordered officials to conduct a crazy idea.

    Claudius thought that if men do not marry, they would gladly join the military. Then Claudius forbade the marriage. The young couple then consider this decision was unreasonable. Hence St. Valentine refused to carry it out.

    St. Valentine continued to carry out his duties as pastor, that is marrying the couple in love, although in secret. This action was eventually known by the emperors who immediately gave him a warning, but he ignored and remain blessed the wedding in a small chapel lit only by candlelight.

    Until one night, he caught one of the blessed couple. The couple managed to escape, but the unfortunate St. Valentine was caught. He was imprisoned and sentenced to death with decapitated. Instead of being humiliated by the people, St. Valentine even visited by many people who support that action. They threw flowers and messages of support on windows prison where he was detained.

    One of the people who believe in love that love is the daughter of the prison guards themselves. The father allows his daughter to visit St. Valentine. Not infrequently they talked a long time. The girl grow back the spirit of the preacher. He agreed that St. Valentine has done the right thing right eh benul alias.

    On the day when he was beheaded aka beheaded head, ie, February 14, do not know what year, St. Valentine took her to write a message to the jailer's daughter before, she writes: With Love from Valentinemu.

    Message that is then changed everything. Now every February 14, people in various parts of the world celebrate it as a day of love. People who celebrate the day to remember St. Valentine as a warrior of love, while the emperor Claudius is remembered as someone who tried to get rid of love.

Conclusion:
Of all the historical origins or above can be concluded that the "day valentine backgrounds that are not clear at all", both from the story and the time of occurrence (note the centuries of history above, although there is the same character name). What do you think?